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by mnd999 1202 days ago
Why would consumer printing become irrelevant?
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Maybe it's just my own little bubble but everything around me seems to be going digital. I used to print invoices / received printed invoices, communicated with the government with printed forms. These days I receive/send invoices via email, and communicate with the government via their web apps. I haven't printed anything in quite a while. And if I wanted to print a photo to put on a wall, I would probably go to a professional shop anyway to get the best quality.
I don’t print much, but i do need to print things several times a month, I would definitely miss it.

Probably my biggest use case is printing off maps for hiking trips.

Continuing trend.

https://www.gapintelligence.com/blog/home-printers-stay-esse...

Since HN tends to be incredibly pedantic: "irrelevant" here is obviously not literal.

Not obvious. A simple "mostly" would have fixed the statement.

Speaking as someone who still occasionally needs a print-out and will not ever see that need go away unless some kind of amazing e-ink technology becomes the norm.

Agreed. When there is paper thin and paper light e-ink tech that cost about as much as paper then I will consider going all digital. I tried going all digital with my business forms process with iPads. It didn't work out.